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On Wednesday 04 July 2007 16:32:44 Christian MICHON wrote:
> On 7/4/07, Andreas F=E4rber <andreas.faerber@web.de> wrote:
> > Is there a special reason to use Aurora? I thought it was an
> > abandoned port of Fedora Core 2... (with Fedora 7 available nowadays)
> > Debian was the only maintained Sparc distribution I could recently
> > find for qemu.
>
> that's the only port I found. maybe I did not look enough.
> thanks for the hint.

Firmware Linux has a sparc target.

http://landley.net/code/firmware

Go "./build.sh sparc" and then look at run-sparc.sh in the build director=
y.

There's a bug I haven't bothered to track down (possibly in uClibc) that=20
prevents the console from initializing properly, but if you boot with=20
init=3D/tools/bin/hello-dynamic you get a "hello world" message.  (I have=
n't=20
tracked down why the shell hangs yet.)

Rob
--=20
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.